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Movie ID: 735
RT slug: crimes_of_the_future_2022
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/crimes_of_the_future_2022
Release year: 2022
Runtime: 107 mins
Wide release date: —
Limited release date: 2022-06-03
Festival premiere date: 2022-05-23
Streaming release date: —
Tomatometer final: 80%
Audience score final: —
Genres: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Directors: David Cronenberg
Writers: David Cronenberg
Producers: Panos Papahadzis, Robert Lantos, Steve Solomos
MPAA rating: R
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-06-14 16:15:42
Updated: 2026-06-14 16:15:42
In a future where humans adapt to synthetic environments and undergo biological transformations, a performance artist and his partner stage public displays of organ metamorphosis.
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Canonical reviews: 285
Canonical fresh: 227
Canonical rotten: 58
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 80%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-06-14 16:02:07
Snapshot Tomatometer: 80%
Snapshot review count: 285
Snapshot fresh count: 227
Snapshot rotten count: 58
Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #1278 (full_snapshot)
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| Serendipity Point Films | production |
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| 1 | Viggo Mortensen | Saul Tenser |
| 2 | Léa Seydoux | Caprice |
| 3 | Kristen Stewart | Timlin |
| 4 | Scott Speedman | Lang Dotrice |
| 5 | Welket Bungue | Cope |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 167366 | Matt Brunson | Film Frenzy | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2026-05-27T12:17:57Z | 2026-05-27 12:17:57 | A fascinating film that often feels oddly unformed and uninformed. |
| 167367 | David Day | Horror Movie Talk | Fresh | 9/10 | 2025-09-23T18:44:46Z | 2025-09-23 18:44:46 | A worthwhile movie that is sure to make you feel uncomfortable on a variety of levels. While it’s not as universally relatable as the performance given by Jeff Goldblum in The Fly, it’s very close to it. |
| 167368 | Christina Newland | iNews.co.uk | Fresh | 4/5 | 2024-09-18T21:34:57Z | 2024-09-18 21:34:57 | David Cronenberg's cringe-inducing gore has twists that offer up some truly provocative questions about technology, the body and sexuality. |
| 167369 | Sarah Vincent | Sarah G Vincent Views | Rotten | — | 2024-06-09T16:30:13Z | 2024-06-09 16:30:13 | It felt as if Mortensen was doing an impression of Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty in “Blade Runner” (1982) with a healthy mix of Nosferatu with Tenser’s oversized slim sleeves, crouching in corners, always in black, lurking in the shadows, sometimes masked |
| 167370 | Calum Baker | Radio Times | Fresh | — | 2024-05-09T21:55:22Z | 2024-05-09 21:55:22 | Extraneous organs, plastic consumption and Giger-esque bio-mechanisms all feature in this wholly unique neo-noir, with plenty to satisfy fans of Cronenberg's early "body horror" work. |
| 167371 | Nadine Whitney | Mr. Movie's Film Blog | Fresh | 3/5 | 2023-09-17T15:09:37Z | 2023-09-17 15:09:37 | Crimes of the Future may be better described as ‘echoes of the past,’ yet it is evocative enough to avoid at any stage being boring. |
| 167372 | Niall Browne | Movies in Focus | Fresh | 3/5 | 2023-09-17T12:01:33Z | 2023-09-17 12:01:33 | Diverting without ever feeling essential, Crimes Of The Future is David Cronenberg treading water. It’s competently made and good to look at, but it lacks the weight or the shock factor of his finer work. |
| 167373 | Alisha Mughal | Exclaim! | Rotten | 6/10 | 2023-08-09T19:32:51Z | 2023-08-09 19:32:51 | In replicating buzz created around Crash, Crimes of the Future can't escape being compared to it. For all its outrage marketing, Crimes of the Future doesn't live up to its hype. |
| 167374 | Robert Martin | Starburst | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-08-01T16:56:59Z | 2023-08-01 16:56:59 | It doesn’t quite make it as classic Cronenberg, but there’s enough sly humour, icy cold dialogue, and literally stomach-turning gore erotica to make it well worth a watch. |
| 167375 | Jillian Chilingerian | Offscreen With Jillian | Fresh | — | 2023-07-26T17:16:38Z | 2023-07-26 17:16:38 | Welcome to a world where humans create new organs, pain doesn’t exist, people eat plastic, and surgery is the new sex. |
| 167376 | Zach Pope | Zach Pope Reviews | Rotten | — | 2023-07-25T21:54:51Z | 2023-07-25 21:54:51 | A thematically rich film but with a surface level approach that really only asks questions & intrigues you with these questions while dangling some answers…. But never truly going fully into the entire concept. |
| 167377 | Tina Kakadelis | Beyond the Cinerama Dome | Fresh | — | 2023-07-25T01:22:25Z | 2023-07-25 01:22:25 | The trouble with Crimes of the Future is that it feels like it’s missing its final twenty minutes. While it doesn’t have the most abrupt ending possible, there was so much left on the table that needed a complete follow-through. |
| 167378 | Hector A. Gonzalez | InSession Film | Fresh | A | 2023-07-19T19:39:59Z | 2023-07-19 19:39:59 | Long live the new flesh, where the body is reality, both blood curdling and stimulating. Thank you, David Cronenberg! |
| 167379 | Greg Carlson | Vague Visages | Fresh | — | 2023-06-13T19:43:20Z | 2023-06-13 19:43:20 | Crimes of the Future doesn’t offer the same opportunities of mid-2000s highlights like ‘A History of Violence’ and ‘Eastern Promises,’ but Mortensen balances the ridiculous and the sublime like few others. |
| 167380 | Robert Roten | Laramie Movie Scope | Rotten | C | 2023-01-27T20:48:27Z | 2023-01-27 20:48:27 | As far as comparisons to the two other Cronenberg films I think are similar, "Crash" and "eXistenZ," I think this is inferior in terms of quality and budget. The budgetary issues show up mostly in terms of low-rent sets and other production compromises. |
| 167381 | Luke Y. Thompson | CineGods.com | Fresh | — | 2023-01-13T00:43:11Z | 2023-01-13 00:43:11 | Welcome back to body horror, David Cronenberg. We’ve missed you. And sure, you can bring Viggo Mortensen along. |
| 167382 | Mitchell Beaupre | The Film Stage | Fresh | 8.5/10 | 2023-01-03T21:52:13Z | 2023-01-03 21:52:13 | It’s not even a little surprising that David Cronenberg wrote the screenplay for Crimes of the Future twenty years ago and didn’t change a thing in bringing his vision to life in 2022. |
| 167383 | Dolores Quintana | Dolores Quintana | Fresh | — | 2022-12-28T20:57:12Z | 2022-12-28 20:57:12 | David Cronenberg’s CRIMES OF THE FUTURE is a work of such exquisite horror and refined subtlety that it is pure sex. It is funny, trenchant, and so far ahead of most directors with its musing on the nexus of art, pain, sexuality, and politics. |
| 167384 | Ella Feldman | Washington City Paper | Fresh | — | 2022-12-27T01:23:59Z | 2022-12-27 01:23:59 | Cronenberg finds new entry points into these themes, making fresh incisions that feel distinctly modern. Crimes of the Future is not a carbon copy of its director’s greatest hits. It’s a manifesto. |
| 167385 | Samuel Leggett Jr. | JVS Media & Productions/Team JVS | Fresh | 8.5/10 | 2022-12-26T21:00:42Z | 2022-12-26 21:00:42 | Crimes of the Future literally is not for the faint of heart. Were it has some amazing imaginary, very heavy artist suggestion and design, and some great performances from the whole cast; this is not a film to watch out of enjoyment or entertainment. |
| 167386 | Eric Marchen | Rogers TV | Fresh | A- | 2022-12-04T04:46:51Z | 2022-12-04 04:46:51 | Crimes of the Future dissects a compelling cross section of Cronenberg’s body of work. |
| 167387 | Vadim Rizov | Filmmaker Magazine | Fresh | — | 2022-11-21T21:57:29Z | 2022-11-21 21:57:29 | Cronenberg's style [is] a finely honed, mysterious ability to make medium-shot coverage of characters talking on chiaroscuro-shaded stage builds weirdly entrancing. |
| 167388 | Jonathan DeHaan | Nightmare on Film Street | Fresh | 8/10 | 2022-11-02T15:19:46Z | 2022-11-02 15:19:46 | No one makes movies like Cronenberg, and Crime of The Future may just be the most Cronbergien Cronenberg to ever Cronenberg. |
| 167389 | Agustín Acevedo Kanopa | La Diaria | Fresh | 6/10 | 2022-10-30T00:49:40Z | 2022-10-30 00:49:40 | To mark a work as a requiem is equivalent to burying an artist, but with Cronenberg one knows that the limits between the dead and the living, between the rotten and the germinal, are much more porous. |
| 167390 | June Butler | Film Ireland Magazine | Fresh | — | 2022-10-07T01:08:46Z | 2022-10-07 01:08:46 | Considering Cronenberg's legacy in the genre, it can only be concluded that his latest offering has drawn on past successes whilst also being augmented to an acme of visceral and singular beauty. |
| 167391 | Caitlyn Downs | Ghouls Magazine | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-10-05T19:25:20Z | 2022-10-05 19:25:20 | A director in a reflective space, consumed by concerns for the future and a career-long fascination with the intersection between humanity and technology creates a film that lingers rather than jolts, but undoubtedly has a lot to say. |
| 167392 | John Lui | The Straits Times (Singapore) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-30T23:31:49Z | 2022-09-30 23:31:49 | Nightmares can be beautiful, even sexy, in this creepy, absorbing look into a next-level future. |
| 167393 | Desirée De Fez | Fotogramas | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-26T22:13:14Z | 2022-09-26 22:13:14 | David Cronenberg has always been capable of adventuring, with temporal margins, the changes in human beings from all possible angles: physical, technological, and moral -- this film just takes it to the next level. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 167394 | Javier Ocaña | El Pais (Spain) | Fresh | — | 2022-09-26T19:21:13Z | 2022-09-26 19:21:13 | Mutation of human evolution, in a sexy and hazardous neo-noir, illuminated by the blood crimson color of the protagonist's dress. It's cinema for pain and ardor. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 167395 | Joe Lipsett | Queer.Horror.Movies. | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-09-26T18:32:20Z | 2022-09-26 18:32:20 | While the cop/terrorism storylines feel undercooked and probably needed additional screen time (or to be excised entirely), Crimes of the Future contains no shortage of tantalizing components. |
| 167396 | Guillem Martinez Oya | Cinematismo | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-09-22T18:57:03Z | 2022-09-22 18:57:03 | A cosmogony of the univers of cronenberg’s mind. [Full review in spanish] |
| 167397 | Daniel de Partearroyo | Cinemanía (Spain) | Fresh | 5/5 | 2022-09-22T18:00:17Z | 2022-09-22 18:00:17 | An unexpectedly tender film where all the obsessions of the author converge completely... leaving a tear on the cheek. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 167398 | Luis Martínez | El Mundo (Spain) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-22T16:41:00Z | 2022-09-22 16:41:00 | Cronenberg organizes an enthusiastic homage to himself, something of an irrefutable mausoleum. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 167399 | Eddie Harrison | film-authority.com | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-09-21T09:04:42Z | 2022-09-21 09:04:42 | …while the general public will run a mile, Crimes of the Future has plenty of the cold intellectual meat that makes Cronenberg a reliably off-putting proposition… |
| 167400 | Rich Cline | Shadows on the Wall | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-16T21:13:47Z | 2022-09-16 21:13:47 | Cronenberg leans heavily into grotesque physical imagery that knowingly depicts a society where politics and medicine have merged. And in its own gloomy way, this hushed film offers some deranged hope. |
| 167401 | Katherine McLaughlin | SciFiNow | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-16T00:40:34Z | 2022-09-16 00:40:34 | Crimes of the Future is quintessential Cronenberg; a sensual and disturbingly fascinating fever dream that re-evaluates the intersection of flesh and technology, and pain and pleasure, with a masterful and provocative eye. |
| 167402 | Hilary A White | Sunday Independent (Ireland) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-14T23:56:41Z | 2022-09-14 23:56:41 | The singular vision, the score by Howard Shore, the Giger-esque prop design all contribute to making this a macabre, leftfield victory -- albeit one you’ll never want to watch again. |
| 167403 | Paul Whitington | Irish Independent | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-14T23:51:16Z | 2022-09-14 23:51:16 | The film plays out like a sci-fi noir, and is full of Cronenberg’s trademark icky originality and invention. |
| 167404 | Graeme Tuckett | The Post NZ | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-14T21:37:46Z | 2022-09-14 21:37:46 | At the age of 80, the Cronenberg who earned that eponymous adjective is very much still with us. |
| 167405 | Nick Hasted | The Arts Desk | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-09-14T18:52:54Z | 2022-09-14 18:52:54 | Crimes of the Future seems a charmingly grisly artefact of the past, the result of cinemagoers mutating to accept Cronenberg films without a qualm. |
| 167406 | Maria Lattila | WhyNow (UK) | Rotten | 3/5 | 2022-09-13T14:55:01Z | 2022-09-13 14:55:01 | It’s not wild or extreme enough to satisfy any cravings one has for a Cronenberg film. It’s one solid re-write away from a truly mesmerising film. |
| 167407 | Mark Kermode | Observer (UK) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-09-11T10:35:44Z | 2022-09-11 10:35:44 | For all its nostalgic pleasures and sardonic nods, this remains a footnote to the main body of Cronenberg’s work – a playful step back rather than an evolutionary leap forward. |
| 167408 | Andy Lea | Daily Express (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-09T11:20:20Z | 2022-09-09 11:20:20 | The dense dialogue and the slow but very deliberate pace can make for hard work. But this is another Cronenberg “body horror” which will be very hard to shake off. |
| 167409 | Linda Marric | The Jewish Chronicle | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-09T09:36:58Z | 2022-09-09 09:36:58 | While one can’t help but feel that more coherent and vastly superior work is being done by the likes of Brandon Cronenberg, it's still great to have Cronenberg senior back, thriving and shocking the masses once more. |
| 167410 | Matt Hudson | What I Watched Tonight | Rotten | 5/10 | 2022-09-09T00:03:00Z | 2022-09-09 00:03:00 | An unbalanced, unexciting slog that promised a lot but, frustratingly, doesn’t deliver. |
| 167411 | Deborah Ross | The Spectator | Rotten | — | 2022-09-08T18:30:49Z | 2022-09-08 18:30:49 | In this instance, the most shocking thing is that it’s so muddled and dreary. It’s a gore-fest, true enough, but it’s a gore-fest that is mostly a snooze-fest. |
| 167412 | Danny Leigh | Financial Times | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-08T17:06:45Z | 2022-09-08 17:06:45 | Under the drollery and beyond the innards is a fatalistic vision of environmental collapse and a tart retort to fonder blueprints of the future. |
| 167413 | Alistair Harkness | Scotsman | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-08T11:14:18Z | 2022-09-08 11:14:18 | Works as a spiritual sequel to cult classics Videodrome and eXistenZ... |
| 167414 | Ryan Gilbey | New Statesman | Rotten | — | 2022-09-07T19:41:31Z | 2022-09-07 19:41:31 | Crimes of the Future feels like a weary summing-up, or a singles compilation from a once-pioneering band. |
| 167415 | Tom Beasley | Flickering Myth | Rotten | 2/5 | 2022-09-07T19:33:38Z | 2022-09-07 19:33:38 | Even the old master of the macabre runs into a self-imposed brick wall this time around. |
| 167416 | Charlotte O'Sullivan | London Evening Standard | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-09-07T19:02:33Z | 2022-09-07 19:02:33 | Brecken and Timlin are such good characters. And Stewart’s febrile delivery makes every scene she’s in feel urgent. Which is satisfying on so many levels. |
| 167417 | Sarah Cleary | Little White Lies | Fresh | 5/5 | 2022-09-06T15:17:51Z | 2022-09-06 15:17:51 | Thoughtful, poignant, confusing, funny, sexy, gross – it’s a lot. |
| 167418 | Simon Crook | Empire Magazine | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-06T10:35:36Z | 2022-09-06 10:35:36 | Hypnotic, maddening, pervy and disturbing. In other words, vintage Cronenberg. The doomy slow-burn won’t be to all tastes, but its abstract, feverish images are pure nightmare fuel. |
| 167419 | Kat Hughes | THN | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-09-06T07:47:17Z | 2022-09-06 07:47:17 | A classic Cronenberg case of having to embrace the strange and hold on tight, Crimes of the Future will test even the most devout fan. |
| 167420 | Zoë Rose Bryant | Loud and Clear Reviews | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-09-01T08:09:50Z | 2022-09-01 08:09:50 | Crimes of the Future finds David Cronenberg directing genre fare for the first time in over two decades, but this “comeback” leaves a bit to be desired, despite the striking style on display. |
| 167421 | Prahlad Srihari | News9 Live (India) | Fresh | — | 2022-08-29T12:26:34Z | 2022-08-29 12:26:34 | Cronenberg cuts open his own body of work and excises the parts he needs to Frankenstein a new beast. He gives us his own twisted logical extension of how the human body might need to subvert the biological status quo as a sustainable measure. |
| 167422 | CJ Johnson | Film Mafia | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-08-25T22:11:19Z | 2022-08-25 22:11:19 | Cronenberg’s dialogue here is typically ludicrous but once you get lulled into it, the film becomes a little like a perverse warm bath, sweeping you into its bonkers world. |
| 167423 | Rob Gonsalves | Rob's Movie Vault | Fresh | A | 2022-08-24T16:59:34Z | 2022-08-24 16:59:34 | Cronenberg is an actors’ director, as was obvious as far back as The Brood (1979), and by creating an artsy-bloody backdrop for them to play in front of, he gets performances and moments no one else can. |
| 167424 | Sarah Ward | Concrete Playground | Fresh | — | 2022-08-21T22:50:46Z | 2022-08-21 22:50:46 | This tale of pleasure and pain is as Cronenbergian as anything can be. |
| 167425 | Jim Schembri | jimschembri.com | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-08-19T08:18:10Z | 2022-08-19 08:18:10 | David Cronenberg’s delicious, overdue return to the old-school body horror that made his name and made us squirm...As with all his best films Cronenberg elicits typically pungent, off-planet performances aggressively committed to his disturbed vision. |
| 167426 | Andiee Paviour | Nobody's Reading This But Me | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-08-19T04:10:21Z | 2022-08-19 04:10:21 | The morbidly unhinged is director David Cronenberg’s happy place. |
| 167427 | Simon Miraudo | Movie Squad (RTRFM 92.1) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-08-19T01:51:36Z | 2022-08-19 01:51:36 | Dramatically inert and positively quaint in its vision of a dystopia (growing bonus organs seems like the least of our upcoming problems), its nonetheless fun to see Cronenberg back in his preferred body-horror playground. |
| 167428 | Jake Wilson | The Age (Australia) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-08-18T21:49:45Z | 2022-08-18 21:49:45 | David Cronenberg is back, and it’s about time. |
| 167429 | Elissa Suh | Moviepudding (Substack) | Fresh | — | 2022-08-18T16:18:24Z | 2022-08-18 16:18:24 | Among the ingenious tactile props in the movie are that chestnut bed, meant to cradle your spine, and similarly, a rigid chair made of bones meant to aid digestion. |
| 167430 | Stephen A. Russell | Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) | Fresh | — | 2022-08-16T02:09:10Z | 2022-08-16 02:09:10 | It’s the daftness that wins over the dourer, more meandering stretches, perfectly summed up by Stewart’s ludicrously obvious tldr description of what’s going on here—“Surgery is the new sex.” |
| 167431 | Namrata Joshi | National Herald (India) | Fresh | — | 2022-08-09T18:25:45Z | 2022-08-09 18:25:45 | The opening sequence of the maestro’s new film, Crimes of the Future shows him in a different, tad mellower frame of mind. That deviation in the mood suffuses the rest of the film as well. |
| 167432 | Alissa Wilkinson | Vox | Fresh | — | 2022-08-05T16:59:39Z | 2022-08-05 16:59:39 | An oddly sweet package, with human connection at its heart. |
| 167433 | Fernanda Solórzano | Letras Libres | Fresh | — | 2022-08-02T18:43:09Z | 2022-08-02 18:43:09 | The environmental film subgenre often has better intentions than representatives. Crimes of the future is one of the few honorable examples, and an atypical film in a filmography of cold characters. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 167434 | Gayle Sequeira | Film Companion | Fresh | — | 2022-07-29T14:05:56Z | 2022-07-29 14:05:56 | For all the external bodily wounds director David Cronenberg depicts, Crimes of the Future is a striking reminder that one of his biggest strengths as a storyteller is probing the human soul. |
| 167435 | Rohan Naahar | The Indian Express | Fresh | — | 2022-07-29T13:58:32Z | 2022-07-29 13:58:32 | Crimes of the Future is — at least on a purely thematic level — Cronenberg’s answer to Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman; a film about mortality that he couldn’t have made as a young man. |
| 167436 | Casey Chong | Casey's Movie Mania | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2022-07-29T11:20:26Z | 2022-07-29 11:20:26 | [David] Cronenberg, who also wrote his own screenplay, may have been conceptually fascinating but his overall execution is strangely dull and hollow. |
| 167437 | Beatrice Loayza | The Nation | Fresh | — | 2022-07-25T17:58:38Z | 2022-07-25 17:58:38 | It’s a startlingly romantic film—the first the director has made after the death of his wife—and its concluding shocks are softened with a sense of resignation. |
| 167438 | Alachia Queen | Alachia Queen | Rotten | F- | 2022-07-22T22:36:23Z | 2022-07-22 22:36:23 | DUMB. Boring. a manifesto of the apathy of an unfeeling generation. How could a story about body mutilation be this boring.. that's the real crime. |
| 167439 | Iana Murray | The Skinny | Rotten | 3/5 | 2022-07-21T20:36:29Z | 2022-07-21 20:36:29 | Crimes of the Future is let down by a story that ultimately goes nowhere, though it certainly makes for a fascinating world-building exercise. |
| 167440 | Alejandra Martinez | We Got This Covered | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-07-15T17:49:13Z | 2022-07-15 17:49:13 | Tender, slower-paced than Cronenberg’s usual fare, but just as juicy with body horror and feeling, Crimes of the Future is a movie worth opening yourself up to. Come for the promise of graphic spectacle, stay for the tender rumination on art and autonomy. |
| 167441 | Erick Estrada | Cinegarage | Fresh | — | 2022-07-14T21:42:37Z | 2022-07-14 21:42:37 | Cronenberg not only shows that he's always been right, but he lets it known that from now on the dominion of our being, our body, is an act of insurrection... [Full review in Spanish] |
| 167442 | Paula Vázquez Prieto | La Nación (Argentina) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-07-14T20:02:14Z | 2022-07-14 20:02:14 | That ochre reality that Cronenberg composes like a desperate artist captures the scream of its creatures, the longing for a possible life even if it's in the fetish of its representation. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 167443 | Edwin Arnaudin | Asheville Movies | Rotten | C+ | 2022-07-13T17:00:43Z | 2022-07-13 17:00:43 | Cronenberg's insistence on being provocative for the sake of provocation blunts his storytelling and mutes his social commentary. |
| 167444 | Diego Batlle | Otroscines.com | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-07-12T20:23:00Z | 2022-07-12 20:23:00 | There's space for eroticism, humor, reflection, and provocation in the film. Pure Cronenberg. |
| 167445 | Mary Beth McAndrews | Dread Central | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-07-09T04:17:40Z | 2022-07-09 04:17:40 | ‘Crimes of the Future’ is surprisingly funny, expansive, and as Cronenbergian as ever. This one isn’t for gorehounds, but still delivers its fair share of bodily horrors. |
| 167446 | Kristy Strouse | Wonderfully Weird and Horrifying | Fresh | — | 2022-07-09T01:49:12Z | 2022-07-09 01:49:12 | A true visionary, Crimes of the Future sees Cronenberg at his most curious and morose in many years. One of the best of 2022 so far. |
| 167447 | Adam Nayman | The Ringer | Fresh | — | 2022-07-09T01:34:10Z | 2022-07-09 01:34:10 | At once sparse and thematically loaded, it’s the sort of visceral-slash-cerebral provocation that only Cronenberg could—or would—make in the first place. Meet the new flesh, same as the old flesh. |
| 167448 | Ruben Peralta Rigaud | Cocalecas | Rotten | — | 2022-07-08T17:10:52Z | 2022-07-08 17:10:52 | Presents us with a most indecent story that, in the end, doesn’t have a lot to say and did not leave me excited. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 167449 | Bob Grimm | Reno News and Review | Rotten | 1.25/5 | 2022-07-04T19:23:54Z | 2022-07-04 19:23:54 | Immediately establishes itself as one of Cronenberg's very worst movies. It's a garbage dump for his lousiest tendencies. |
| 167450 | Yasser Medina | Cinefilia | Rotten | 5/10 | 2022-07-03T01:53:09Z | 2022-07-03 01:53:09 | Cronenberg no longer has anything interesting to narrate as an anesthesiologist of body horror. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 167451 | Peter Canavese | Celluloid Dreams | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2022-06-30T03:39:08Z | 2022-06-30 03:39:08 | Moody, down-and-dirty Cronenberg--another boundary pushing movie about boundary pushing where the director continues to be fascinated by outre subcultures and kinks. |
| 167452 | Filipe Freitas | Always Good Movies | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-06-29T04:00:58Z | 2022-06-29 04:00:58 | Moreover, the conceptual violence makes the film swing between fascination and repulsion. And yet, the script reveals some inventiveness. |
| 167453 | Jeffrey Overstreet | JeffreyOverstreet.com (Ghost.io) | Fresh | B+ | 2022-06-28T20:48:33Z | 2022-06-28 20:48:33 | It investigates the mysterious and personal nature of art: where it comes from, how it asks artists to expose themselves in costly ways, how commercial and corporate interests corrupt it, and how crowd-pleasing can run counter to an artist’s own visions. |
| 167454 | Scott Mendelson | Forbes | Fresh | 6/10 | 2022-06-28T13:54:35Z | 2022-06-28 13:54:35 | Kristen Stewart's against-type turn elevates David Cronenberg's otherwise conventional (but compelling) return to body horror. |
| 167455 | Sophie Monks Kaufman | Hyperallergic | Fresh | — | 2022-06-27T20:21:33Z | 2022-06-27 20:21:33 | Starring Léa Seydoux, Viggo Mortensen, and Kristen Stewart, Crimes of the Future is funny, serious, and sexy all at once. |
| 167456 | Steve Biodrowski | Cinefantastique | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-06-24T23:14:17Z | 2022-06-24 23:14:17 | David Cronenberg’s return to body horror offers a nightmarish vision of the future. Or is it a pleasant dream? |
| 167457 | Shannon O'Connor | The Daily Beast | Fresh | — | 2022-06-24T22:35:08Z | 2022-06-24 22:35:08 | It proves to be a surprisingly poignant and beautiful transgender allegory in 2022. |
| 167458 | Owen Gabbey | Pittsburgh City Paper | Fresh | — | 2022-06-23T23:56:19Z | 2022-06-23 23:56:19 | There’s a lot of heart in Crimes of the Future, along with a lot of other organs. |
| 167459 | Taylor Baker | Drink in the Movies | Fresh | 80/100 | 2022-06-23T23:07:48Z | 2022-06-23 23:07:48 | Self-critical, satirical, imbalanced, and gory, Cronenberg again uses Mortensen’s body as the primary vehicle for a film. Building his world out from and around the removal of newly grown and newly discovered organs that grow inside of Mortensen’s Saul |
| 167460 | Nicolás Delgadillo | Knotfest | Fresh | — | 2022-06-21T23:20:53Z | 2022-06-21 23:20:53 | Perhaps his most poignant exploration of themes and ideas that have been with him throughout his career. |
| 167461 | David Nusair | Reel Film Reviews | Rotten | — | 2022-06-21T22:52:36Z | 2022-06-21 22:52:36 | .5/4 An often astonishingly tedious endeavor... |
| 167462 | Jeffrey Zhang | Strange Harbors | Fresh | A- | 2022-06-18T12:36:54Z | 2022-06-18 12:36:54 | Sure, there’s sex, there’s surgery, and there’s Carol Spier’s signature fleshy apparati, but the true pleasures of the film lie elsewhere. |
| 167463 | David Bax | Battleship Pretension | Fresh | — | 2022-06-17T01:06:40Z | 2022-06-17 01:06:40 | In the movie’s world, art, sex and biology are all changing in regards to one another and they are not doing so harmoniously. |
| 167464 | Dennis Schwartz | Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews | Fresh | A- | 2022-06-16T12:12:19Z | 2022-06-16 12:12:19 | Chilling dystopian horror story. |
| 167465 | Erik Childress | Movie Madness Podcast | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2022-06-16T12:09:10Z | 2022-06-16 12:09:10 | A lot of new flesh that feels like the old stuff as Cronenberg ruffles with some new ideas of our physical and mental evolution, but the story rambles when it should take hold and too many ideas are left dangling. |
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